Somewhat An Off-Topic Question

[sachinky 465]

I think it's the quality/type of milk that makes the difference.

Frosty, I'd be happy to ship some over for you!

[mobama94 0]

Quick Update: I received the package earlier today, signed for it before I left the house--perfect timing! It arrived earlier than anticipated, not complaining at all

Edited November 17, 2009 by mobama94

[Captain Oates 911]

Oh, Indian Cadbury triumphs ALL other Cadbury's including UK/USA. I take about a ton of chocolate bars everytime I go back to the US.

It's funny isn't it. It's definitely what you are used too. My american friends love their hersheys but my argument is that if they were brought up on cadbury's then they would have a different opinion.

I used to think that but I have become convinced that Brit food is the best and US food is horrible - all of it, without exception. It isn't anything to do with what we are used to. I am talking about supermarket food rather than Restaurant food

My USC wife lived in the UK for a year and she pines for Brit food. Including Brit curries from India and Pakistan and the tribesmen of the Khyber...

I mean have you seen US eggs ? Looks like a small sick pigeon has laid them some years ago. In the UK they are big and brown and fresh and yummy. Bread ? yuk and expensive. Currant teacakes ? Don't exist. Cheshire cheese - nearest is Florida at $zillions a nibble - I used to drive 70 miles to buy a piece in Florida.

Morrison's black pudding ? Don't start me on beer. A lot of chicken is faintly reminiscent of chicken so I eat a lot of that - otherwise spuds - even then it's hard to find those that taste like spuds. I don't know what the soil is in Idaho but it can't be like the rich black loam of Blighty

I go back to the UK every 12 weeks and I take a melamine plate and knife and fork and I empty Morrison's and pig out on Brit food in my hotel room.

Then I come back to the US and take my triglyceride pill and eat sugar with sugar on again mixed with molasses and a lump of pig fat with a tiny streak of meat (bacon). The cheese is like a bar of soap in texture. Crumbly Lancashire sir ?

I think the quality of the grub is terrible and I am so surprised the population are not revolting

Yoghurt and canned fruit for tea....

[DIARD 1]

Oh, Indian Cadbury triumphs ALL other Cadbury's including UK/USA. I take about a ton of chocolate bars everytime I go back to the US.

It's funny isn't it. It's definitely what you are used too. My american friends love their hersheys but my argument is that if they were brought up on cadbury's then they would have a different opinion.

I used to think that but I have become convinced that Brit food is the best and US food is horrible - all of it, without exception. It isn't anything to do with what we are used to. I am talking about supermarket food rather than Restaurant food

My USC wife lived in the UK for a year and she pines for Brit food. Including Brit curries from India and Pakistan and the tribesmen of the Khyber...

I mean have you seen US eggs ? Looks like a small sick pigeon has laid them some years ago. In the UK they are big and brown and fresh and yummy. Bread ? yuk and expensive. Currant teacakes ? Don't exist. Cheshire cheese - nearest is Florida at $zillions a nibble - I used to drive 70 miles to buy a piece in Florida.

Morrison's black pudding ? Don't start me on beer. A lot of chicken is faintly reminiscent of chicken so I eat a lot of that - otherwise spuds - even then it's hard to find those that taste like spuds. I don't know what the soil is in Idaho but it can't be like the rich black loam of Blighty

I go back to the UK every 12 weeks and I take a melamine plate and knife and fork and I empty Morrison's and pig out on Brit food in my hotel room.

Then I come back to the US and take my triglyceride pill and eat sugar with sugar on again mixed with molasses and a lump of pig fat with a tiny streak of meat (bacon). The cheese is like a bar of soap in texture. Crumbly Lancashire sir ?

I think the quality of the grub is terrible and I am so surprised the population are not revolting

Yoghurt and canned fruit for tea....

I'll give you the cheese, but I think most of the rest depends on where you live. I was born and raised in California and I think we have the best produce around. I also lived in the midwest and I personally thought the food there was horrid at first but slowly got use to most of it. Still, I wouldn't trade my farm fresh locally produced fruit, veggies, meats, eggs, tortillas and sourdough for anything I ate in Britian (ok maybe the cheese and the fish and chips.lol) All kidding aside I think it comes down to what you are use to or grew up on.

[Amanda and Tony 0]

I lived in Atlanta for 3 years and to begin with I missed everything but there are ways around it. I can get my essentials locally and I buy fresh produce from the farmers markets. I don't eat meat so that's not a problem and there's plenty of british pubs and I can even get a good pint of Tetelys when I want. But I can't get a good slice of cheesecake in the UK!

[FrostyMist 1]

When I went to the US last year, I wasn't too sure what to expect of the food. I expected to be a lot pickier about the foods than I actually was though. Most of my fussiness with food was solved by just trying a few different brands until I found a particular one that I liked.

Bread tasted too sweet, and thusly I didn't like that, and the eggs freaked me out a bit because they were white. But they taste the same, and my fiance was happy to indule my strange anti-white-eggs campaign and brought brown eggs instead. I had issues with tinned tuna though; it really did look and taste different to British tuna, and much as we tried different brands, I couldn't find one that suited me. I did start to get used to it though. Potatoes and fruit all tasted pretty "normal" to me, and though I expected to miss British chip shop chips, we actually found a place that does chips that taste rather like the British equivilent. So I was happy that there was at least a semi-substitute for that if I had a particular craving.

[Captain Oates 911]

When I went to the US last year, I wasn't too sure what to expect of the food. I expected to be a lot pickier about the foods than I actually was though. Most of my fussiness with food was solved by just trying a few different brands until I found a particular one that I liked.

Bread tasted too sweet, and thusly I didn't like that, and the eggs freaked me out a bit because they were white. But they taste the same, and my fiance was happy to indule my strange anti-white-eggs campaign and brought brown eggs instead. I had issues with tinned tuna though; it really did look and taste different to British tuna, and much as we tried different brands, I couldn't find one that suited me. I did start to get used to it though. Potatoes and fruit all tasted pretty "normal" to me, and though I expected to miss British chip shop chips, we actually found a place that does chips that taste rather like the British equivilent. So I was happy that there was at least a semi-substitute for that if I had a particular craving.

Yes the eggs are an aesthetic thing really. I used to keep 300 hens so I know that white eggs come from white hens and brown eggs come from brown hens and they are both the same inside and it's pretty racist to prefer one to the other. However, free range eggs are certainly better tasting.

Free range hens are better tasting too - indescribable if you have never had one. Every bonfire night, a few of our hens would have a heart attack and fall backwards off the perches with all the bangs going on. My dad used to insist we ate all the sick ones and premature deaths - never had a 'fit' hen but they still tasted great compared to supermarket hens (referred to as chickens).. I used too eat road kill pheasants too.

Wood pigeon is the best meat ever. Hares are too gamey and need a couple of onions inside them before cooking. Bunnies are ok if they are spiced up a bit.

I suppose a tomato or a pigeon tastes the same the world over so I must be talking about processed or pre-prepared food like Cornish pasties. Those you can buy in the UK with big chunks of meat and turnip and white pepper.

It's stuff like that I miss and so preparing one's own from raw materials is the way to go

Imagine selling 'real' English Cornish pasties in New York - you would have a line back to Boston.